ce: the crystal ball barcelona

Interactive theater

In directing and co-scripting this work, with Carlos Calvo, Producer of Theater of the Senses, “The Crystal Ball” was a live theater happening involving secret trap doors, puzzles, codes, a wishing well, performances, a carrot ceremony, and a mysterious invitation process, to mark the launch of The Crystal Express train project. 

Underneath a foundation of festivity and a celebration of disruption, The Crystal Ball seeked to stimulate new ideas about myth and pilgrimages, and to challenge culturally constructed limits and borders. Held at the Estacion de Francia, a scenario of play and provocation was created to enchant its 250 attendees into wonderland, while devising a storytelling platform to immerse the attendees into the lands and stories of the various cities that the project would visit.

Those who were accepted to attend online were instructed to pick up a red key at a local bodega which held the coordinates of the secret location.

The storytelling platform was designed to immerse the attendees into the lands and stories of the various cities the residency would visit; as well as to stimulate new ideas about myth and pilgrimage by challenging the cultural constructed limits and border.

Local performers were invited to contribute their interpretations of the subject of pilgrimage and participate in the show.

Project link: The Crystal Ball Barcelona